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18 Thursday June 28 2018 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School Teachers crucial to students’ ‘learning by doing’ Kia ora koutou, talofa lava, warm greetings to you all. One of our former students, James Adams, gave a passionate speech at Open Night a few years ago. James, a very able academic student, chose Hillmorton High School, in part, because of the diverse nature of our students. Our students come from a range of socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds and bring a wide range of prior learning to the school. By his fifth year at the school, James had developed into a strong critical thinker and he credited his own success and that of his peers to the excellent quality of our teachers. Our teachers are outstanding. They have high expectations of themselves and each student. They are willing to research Ann Brokenshire and try new things in a “safe to fail environment”. In this way, as life-long learners, our staff are excellent role models for our students. James spoke about our teachers not just telling the students what to do but showing them and allowing them to “learn by doing”. Learning by doing in real-life contexts is a key to high engagement and I see this at Hillmorton a lot. Two examples: Recently, a Year 12 Business class showed me their “enterprise” products – they have created a legacy – using an online shop set up within our website, and a new laser cutter in our Technology Department. They are designing and making products to sell which will create a good profit for our groups fundraising for varying activities. New products can be designed, made and sold for different fundraising groups into the future. A group of ten Year 7 & 8 students were asked to give feedback on a logo for a new $28 million initiative from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education to support well-being for Years 1-8 students across our city. As a result of their feedback and suggestions, the proposed logos were thrown out and sent back to the design team. The final logo for the initiative called “Mana Ake – stronger for tomorrow”, won our students’ approval – a demonstration of authentic learning in a real situation. Across our curriculum from Year 7 through to Year 13 our students are thriving within authentic learning contexts where our teachers have high expectations, passion for education and a real heart for students as they traverse the pre-teen and teenage years. The students and I thank all our wonderful staff here at Hillmorton. Tena - - koutou, tena - - koutou, tena - - koutou katoa Ann Brokenshire Principal www.hillmorton.school.nz The Star ‘Experience Hillmorton’ mornings give a taste of what our school has to offer Speechless... not at all Congratulations to Madina Miyakhel and Brendan Tindall who both recently achieved success in different speech competitions. Madina is no stranger to speech competitions and recently also shared her experiences with a group of deputy principals from a range of secondary schools. Madina was placed first in the regional contest for Lions Young Speechmaker. She delivered a six-minute prepared speech and a two-minute impromptu speech, and did really well in both. She now advances to the national competition which this year is in Rangiora in early August. She will be up against about 12 other speakers from the Lions regions around New Ex-pupil’s scholarship set to spread its wings Zealand, competing for a four to six week visit to the US and Canada, hosted by Lions Club members. The runner up gets a trip to Australia, and second runner up, a placement at an International Youth Camp in Rotorua. She has spoken at race unity speech competitions and is wishing to pursue study in political science. We also congratulate Brendan, left, who was placed second in the 2018 Rotary/ Hohepa Best Speaker Competition winning $350. John Pauwels is an Air New Zealand pilot who has recently retired. A former student of Hillmorton, John decided he wanted to give back to his alma mater. He has done so by awarding a flying scholarship which will allow one young person each year to fulfill a dream — that of learning to fly. At a recent celebration assembly, John presented the inaugural scholarship to Year 11 student, Wen Seng Chen. We congratulate Wen Seng and look forward with interest as to where this will lead in the future! Inspiring academic excellence, leadership, and a love of learning Following on from our Open Night, we are holding “Experience Hillmorton” mornings for Year 6 students at our contributing schools. This is an opportunity for these students to have a little taste of some of the teaching and learning that is occuring. Making pizza in Food Tech, ice cream in Science, and funky spinning tops were just some of the activities enjoyed by our visitors. Students also enjoyed student-written drama presentations where the key message was “teamwork is where it is at!” We look forward to seeing most of these students choose Hillmorton as their school of choice in 2019! Enrolment dates for 2019 While many choose to come to Hillmorton in Year 6, we also have significant numbers joining us in Year 9 and we remind students and their families that the following are the enrolment dates for the Year 9, 2019 Intake across schools in Christchurch. Enrolments open ................................... June 11 Enrolment applications close .................July 27. Ballot if necessary ................................. July 31 Letter to parents emailed / posted ......August 1 Last day for acceptance of a place ....August 17 We urge parents and caregivers at Year 7 2019 to also enrol as soon as possible as this assists us with our forward planning. Madina Miyakhel with the cup and certificate she won in the regional Lions Young Speechmaker contest. Wen Seng Chen, left, receives his flying scholarship from former student and donor, retired pilot John Pauwels, right.
The Star Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Thursday June 28 2018 19 Opinion Tanya Didham - I feel like I have been sharing my views quite a lot, both on my own behalf, and as co-chair of Greening the Red Zone. However, this is from me, personally. Suffice to say, there are very good reasons why Regenerate Christchurch took the out-of-river lake off the table. All those reasons (and all their technical reports and indicative business studies) have been laid out on their website since around July last year, (to inform the previous consultation.) The briefest glance at its findings show the out-of-river options to be: - Chiefly, ecologically damaging, and mainly because of impaired use of Horseshoe Lake as a key drainage area for the Cranford flood basin. - Disruptive to locals and infrastructure ( more than 400,000 truck movements) hugely expensive, both to make and to maintain. - Unlikely to draw big competitions away from their current venues of Lakes Ruataniwha and Karapiro and there is no economic benefit to New Zealand. From my perspective as a 20 year local and someone who has been talking a lot with people who love the river and the area - they want a beautiful green space with the river as the centrepiece and clean waterways, which tallies with the responses RC got in its previous consultation. The lake will cut the flow of the city to sea park in half and remove New Brighton Rd, it will treat our river like a drain, and will be at constant risk of contamination from groundwater (it will be partly fed from surficial aquifers and needs to use the deep aquifers to constantly flush it clean, 24/7). It will introduce an enormous body of water - around one and half million cubic metres - into the floodplain of a polluted urban river, in a high risk flood zone. In a high risk quake zone. I do not believe the East Lake Trust’s complaint against RC has any merit. To my knowledge RC been never been disingenuous, or less than rigorous in their research and consideration of ideas and none was more considered. My understanding is the lake advocates may take legal action potentially holding up decision-making on the red zone for years. This would be extremely disappointing. Their actions seem to be designed to get their way, rather than contribute to finding the best solution. Learning quake lessons WHEN WE experience disaster, we can always learn lessons – what did we do well and what didn’t we do so well? It’s vital that we do this, and as a council, we are always putting the spotlight on what happened after every such experience. If we don’t look at what actually happened, then we could keep making the same mistakes over and over again. There have been many reports done on aspects of what happened before, during and after the earthquakes. But they haven’t been brought together. The previous Government was all set to go on a symposium, but like the earthquakes themselves, it was to occur in an election year. There was a genuine concern that it could be written off as a Government-sponsored, election year, whitewash if it only looked at the things that went well. The reality is that we often learn more from mistakes; the things that we wouldn’t want to be repeated. And that’s why it’s vital that we look back, not to blame, but to understand, and we need to be prepared to say what went wrong. This Government has agreed Mayor Lianne Dalziel DISASTER: The Canterbury Earthquakes Recovery Symposium will look at the lessons learnt from the quakes. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER to work collaboratively with the city council on the Canterbury Earthquakes Recovery Symposium and the workshops that will lead up to it, which means we will be sharing the costs. A lot of the city council’s share will be ‘in kind’ support, and the full amount will be disclosed when known. If we don’t do this well, then there is a risk that future governments will make the same mistakes, which would mean the costs could be much greater, and I’m sure no-one would want that to be our legacy. 40 % off up to rrp all luggage just bag Z destination... live your dream! So-Lite Range Disney Range New Zealand Styles Travel Accessories Marvel Range Eminent Superlight High Sierra 4 Wheel Duffle Wheel Grips Eminent TPO DressSmart Mall - 417 Main South Rd, Hornby | juliegriff@xtra.co.nz 03 349 7887 | Open 10am-5pm, 7 days Samsonite Ranges just bagZ
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